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Bob Therina wrote: | I tried the Ubuntu live CD and half of it didn't work for me either. I | didn't get what all the big fuss was about.
Let me take a stab at this one. When Ubuntu came out last year it seemed to be all over the press. So after a while I started checking into it.
I think the big deal has more to do with Debian's problems than with any Debian based distro's merits.
Ubuntu is Debian with a predictable release cycle. On the site somewhere it states that they take a snapshot of debian and stable-ize it. They haven't modified debian so much that nothing works when installed from a debian repository but the ubuntu universe and core distro seem to have all the packages I've needed so far that debian has (and I use a wide range of packages from development to blender 3d modeling to web tools to desktop apps and games.)
What's wrong with using Debian stable, testing, or unstable you might ask? WOODY/STABLE - so old that our web applications cannot run on it (NOT desktop apps--web applications). I can't imagine why many people would still use woody for any modern programming because it requires so much backporting it becomes a huge pain to work with.
SARGE/TESTING - has more recent technology in it but is still pretty outdated. Couple that with the fact that NO security releases are officially released for testing and this just doesnt cut it in a business environment. And updating on a regular basis to try to get any security fixes that might be released is an almost sure way to BREAK your system.
SID/UNSTABLE - You have to FIX lots of stuff when updating becausse there are VERY frequent packages uploaded to this distro and often times things break. PLUS NO security updates are officially released for this either. So this is true to it's name 'unstable'. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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